Re:The Return of Digg, a Star of an Earlier Internet Era
by antod on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @06:16PM
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With slashdot I wouldn't RTFA (hadn't used that term for ages) until after reading some or most of the comments to give me an idea of whether or not it was going to be worth it.
And often any comment I made was in relation to the ongoing discussion and not necessarily the article itself.
I still do that here and elsewhere too.
Re:The Return of Digg, a Star of an Earlier Internet Era
by mingus88 on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @08:47PM
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I’m really trying to pull back from that habit because I simply can’t tell what is legit discourse anymore
In my golden era of message boards the worst you had to deal with were trolls or bad actors but today you simply don’t know who is an LLM bot
What’s the point in reading or replying to machines. It’s like a sand trap just wasting your time in the worst possible way
I was a heavy USENET user for several years before finding Slashdot. With /. I found myself rarely going to the source link and almost never reading the editorial commentary. I'd go straight to the comments and start reading what people had to say. All these decades later and what I love about sites like HN and Reddit is immediately wading in and embracing the zeitgeist. I *loved* Twitter for a long time for the same reason.
But you're right. There are others I knew who were the exact opposite. And those people today have very different internet habits than I do.